Thursday, January 12, 2012

It took me a long time, but I finally, begrudgingly, came around to the
acceptance that in Toobworld everybody will eventually have a TV show about
them. There were far too many Zonks - that is, discrepancies - in which TV
shows mentioned other TV shows when they should have all been sharing the same
universe as realities.

It's kind of the Toobworld version of Andy Warhol's aphorism that in the
Future, everybody will be famous for fifteen minutes. (And that bon mot exits
in Toobworld as well.)

There will still be the individual splainins to bring variety into the
picture toob - that not all TV series titles mentioned in other shows will be
the same show as seen in the real world. Shows with generic titles like
'General Hospital' could be reality programming in Toobworld.

And that's the premise we're going for here. 'The Brady Bunch' has long
been a "zonkish" title, mentioned in so many other TV shows that it's most
likely in the top ten of Zonks. Apparently, some Toobworld TV executive (May
they be nibbled to death by TV ducks!) thought that a blended family of three
boys and three girls would make for compelling TV.

And he would probably be right - if it was done as a reality show, a
fore-runner to that show about the Gosselins, and a contemporary to the
ground-breaking series about the Loud Family.

If we accept Max's statement as true, and not as a reference to a TV
show, then I think we can understand why the Toobworld version of 'The Brady
Bunch' proved to be so popular - to the point where it spawned a couple of
theatrical movies (if it has ever been mentioned as such in other TV
shows.)

But was Carol Brady's sexual transgression with her youngest stepson part
of the original reality show, or was it the scandal that brought 'The Brady
Bunch' to an end? When we met them again in the main Toobworld, there didn't
seem to be any hint of a scandal in their past.

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Just An Old Cowhand On The TiVo Grande

As the Trickster once said, "Reality is boring, that's why I change it whenever I can."
I'm just "The Man Who Viewed Too Much", and "Inner Toob" is a blog exploring and celebrating the 'reality' of an alternate universe in which everything that ever happened on TV actually takes place.
Most of my theories about the TV Universe come from thinking inside the box and thus can't be proven. But I've never been one to shy away from a tall tale.....
Remember: "The more you watch, the more you've seen!"